Here’s Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, testifying today at the House Judiciary Committee‘s hearing on “Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations,” discussing an article of impeachment he introduced this month (co-sponsored by Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland) against President George W. Bush based on “Deceiving Congress with Fabricated Threats of Iraq WMDs to Fraudulently Obtain Support for an Authorization of the Use of Military Force Against Iraq:”

Constitutional lawyer and former Justice Department attorney Bruce Fein: “The Executive Branch has vandalized the Constitution every bit as much as the barbarians sacked Rome in 410 A.D.”

Libertarian presidential candidate and former Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga.: “If we don’t get a handle on this now in some form or fashion, the next administration and the one after that regardless of party will take these abuses, these powers, these liberties with the fundamental institutions of our government and take them to even higher and higher levels.”